2014 Report Prs for Music Foundation 2014 Uk Performances

2014 REPORT PRS FOR MUSIC FOUNDATION 2014 UK PERFORMANCES

Friday 31 January Friday 13 June Wednesday 6 – Thursday 7 August LCO SOLOISTS: ANTOINE FRANCOISE JAMES LAVELLE’S MELTDOWN THERE WILL BE BLOOD: LIVE LimeWharf, London Royal Festival Hall, London Roundhouse, London

Saturday 14 June Sunday 23 February Saturday 23 August JONNY GREENWOOD & JONNY GREENWOOD & IMOGEN HEAP’S REVERB LCO SOLOISTS LCO SOLOISTS Roundhouse, London The Wind Tunnel Project, Farnborough Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London Howard Skempton Lento Delia Derbyshire The Delian Mode Wednesday 23 July Nick Ryan Synaes Friday 28 February InTRANSIT FESTIVAL: (world premiere, Roundhouse commission) LCO SOLOISTS: ACROSS WHITE AIR Edmund Finnis Between Rain MR. UNDERWOOD / KIT DOWNES Holy Trinity Sloane Square, London (world premiere, LCO commission) LimeWharf, London Byrd (arr. Hugh Brunt) Mass for Four Voices: Kyrie Kaija Saariaho Verblendungen Jonathan Harvey Ricercare una Melodia Monday 17 March Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Gloria Friday 10 October HARMONIC SERIES: LCO SOLOISTS Edmund Finnis Relative Colour JONNY GREENWOOD & Royal Festival Hall (Spirit Level), London Jonathan Harvey Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco LCO SOLOISTS Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Sanctus & Benedictus The Albert Hall, Manchester Laurence Crane Raimondas Rumsas Edmund Finnis Across White Air Laurence Crane Sparling 2000 (world premiere, LCO commission) Howard Skempton Tendrils Byrd Mass for Four Voices: Agnus Dei Tuesday 18 November Éliane Radigue L’isle re-sonante GOLDFRAPP Royal Albert Hall, London Monday 28 July Friday 28 March JONNY GREENWOOD & LCO SOLOISTS: LIAM BYRNE LCO SOLOISTS LimeWharf, London Roundhouse, London >> FULL PROGRAMME DETAILS JONNY GREENWOOD & LCO SOLOISTS WAPPING HYDRAULIC POWER STATION FEBRUARY 2014

Jonny Greenwood teamed up with the LCO’s “Greenwood’s work is harmonic, sumptuous, and emotionally principal players to present the first in a series of concerts, at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. deeply moving… the atmosphere was absorbing, excited and The setlist included a selection of Greenwood’s hugely appreciative of the music.” film cues fromThere Will Be Blood, The Master Jon Snow, Channel 4 (Snowblog) and Norwegian Wood alongside new material for strings, ondes Martenot, electronics and Greenwood on electric guitar. Also in the programme: works by Xenakis, Purcell, Messiaen and LCO Composer-in-Association Edmund Finnis.

>> VIDEO of the performance

“The most atmospheric gig I’ve ever been to.” Chris Pate via Twitter

“It was live music at its most electrifying.” NME AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION APP

“...the audience were directed to a web page... Soft, pacific bleeps were released all over the power station like an audio constellation. It was a potent way of bringing the crowd into a mutual experience…”

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>> READ MORE about the app JONNY GREENWOOD & LCO SOLOISTS THE WIND TUNNEL PROJECT, FARNBOROUGH JUNE 2014

Continuing the site-responsive theme, the “They’re a bit like band gigs, I hope - in that there’s an project travelled to Farnborough’s 1917 and 1935 Grade I and II listed wind tunnels, which informality to them. And the new things are written to be were open to the public for the first time. The played live only, not recorded. Plus, we decide what to Wapping setlist was adapted for the acoustics play on the day...” of R52 and augmented with new works by Greenwood written specially for the space. Jonny Greenwood (Manchester Evening News interview)

“@theQuietus was at Farnborough for @JnnyG and @LCOrchestra Soloists... this idea of sound + space is magical, needs to be nurtured, expanded...” Jennifer Yates via Twitter InTRANSIT FESTIVAL: ACROSS WHITE AIR HOLY TRINITY SLOANE SQUARE JULY 2014

Exploring the idea of a ‘secular mass’, the programme interspersed Edmund Finnis’ new work Across White Air (for cello and reverb unit) and Relative Colour with movements from Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices, arranged for strings. The centrepiece of the unbroken programme was Jonathan Harvey’s canonic Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco.

>> VIDEO of the performance

“Wonderful seamless programme of Byrd, Finnis and Harvey last night by @LCOrchestra with Robert Ames & @ollycoates”

Anna Harvey via Twitter JONNY GREENWOOD & LCO SOLOISTS ROUNDHOUSE JULY 2014

The centrepiece for this specially curated concert was Greenwood’s rendition of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint performed in a 360-degree configuration thanks to the supply of 12 Fender ‘65 Twin Reverb amps, feeding each of the pre-recorded guitar tracks to individual amps for a true surround-sound experience!

“Brilliant @LCOrchestra concert tonight at the Roundhouse. Greenwood, Xenakis, Finnis, and Messiaen refreshing my ears” TEED via Twitter

“Beauty abounded at the Roundhouse last night with Jonny Greenwood and the @LCOrchestra - stunning”

KT Tunstall via Twitter THERE WILL BE BLOOD: LIVE ROUNDHOUSE AUGUST 2014 “Sparse and at times just plain peculiar – but in a brilliantly original way. It’s magnificent.” The world premiere live screening of Paul ***** Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning The Independent There Will Be Blood with Jonny Greenwood’s score performed by Greenwood and the LCO.

“It’s impossible to hurl sufficient superlatives at this http://www.roundh... Last perf tonight - go if you can, I loved it” Richard Ayoade via Twitter IMOGEN HEAP’S REVERB ROUNDHOUSE AUGUST 2014 “What a night with @LCOrchestra performing at #Reverb! So many extraordinary pieces but have to Invited by this year’s curator Imogen Heap, mention Edmund Finnis’ Between Rain. Beautiful” the LCO appeared for the third time at the Anna Harvey via Twitter Roundhouse’s Reverb Festival. New works from Edmund Finnis and Nick Ryan accompanied Delia Derbyshire’s The Delian Mode, Lento by Howard Skempton, and Kaija Saariaho’s Verblendungen.

“Howard Skempton’s ‘Lento’ performed by @LCOrchestra at @RoundhouseLDN earlier this eve was breathtaking!” GéNIA via Twitter JONNY GREENWOOD & LCO SOLOISTS THE ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER OCTOBER 2014

For the final Jonny Greenwood collaboration of 2014, the LCO teamed up with leading global music streaming platform Boiler Room to broadcast the performance, resulting in over 200,000 views in just 3 days, representing a major step forward in the LCO’s ability to engage large audiences with uncompromising programmes.

>> BROADCAST of the performance >> INSTAGRAM TRAILER

“Bloody loved @JnnyG & @LCOrchestra at @Alberthallmcr tonight. Tunes. Also. Definite positive direction for classical music and musicianship” Andrew Stride via Twitter

“@JnnyG and @LCOrchestra at @Alberthallmcr was really beautiful last night... Something I may never forget” Ryan Lee via Twitter ARTWORK / DIGITAL

BLOOMBERG SUMMER AT THE ROUNDHOUSE IMOGEN HEAP’S

A FESTIVAL OF VISIONARY MUSIC, INCREDIBLE COLLABORATIONS & INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY

21-24 AUGUST 2014

Imogen Heap’s new album ‘Sparks’ live + old favourites

PLUS Plaid & Bruno Zamborlin Tim Exile London Contemporary Orchestra Leafcutter John Nonclassical Mira Calix Joby Burgess Quayola Simon Steen-Andersen Alexander Schubert Nick Ryan

& interactive sound installations www.roundhouse.org.uk

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MEDIA COVERAGE

Publication (selected) Circulation The Sunday Times 391,179 REVIEWS IN FULL Guardian 192,881 The Independent 63,928 >> NME MAGAZINE Monday 24 February 2014 Broadcast Ratings Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists Boiler Room 1,600,000 (active registered users) 5,300,000 (total plays on top shows) BBC Radio 6 Music 1,890,000 (weekly listenership) >> THE INDEPENDENT Thursday 7 August 2014 Online Visits (UNIQUE PER MONTH) / Twitter There Will Be Blood: Live Channel 4 - Jon Snow 607,000 (Twitter followers) NME 179,000 Pitchfork 148,000 >> MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS Classic FM 71,900 (Twitter followers) Saturday 11 October 2014 The Quietus 69,500 (Twitter followers) Jonny Greenwood & LCO Soloists AUDIENCE STATISTICS

Total live audience: 14,284 Facebook (1,098 avg., 96.11% capacity) Gender and age of 3,547* ‘likes’:

Broadcast audience: 400,000+

YouTube views: 600,000+

Mailing list: 148,000+ (LCO + Roundhouse)

Twitter Ratio: 65:1 Followers: 5,638 (Following: 86)

Social media reach via Radiohead Facebook: 12,357,400 *potential reach of 500,000 through promoted posts and adverts Twitter: 1,380,000 PARTNERS

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